Friday, 29 April 2016

Claude’s Nightmare

A wonderful morph scene highlights The Hypo-Chondri-Cat starring the mind-game playing mice, Hubie and Bertie. They’ve convinced Claude Cat to let them operate on him. The cat starts hallucinating. A needle and thread turn into Claude’s bed (changing colours along the way). The artwork tells the story.



Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughan, Phil Munroe and Ken Harris get screen credit in the 1950 Warners release by the Chuck Jones unit. The story is from the mind of Mike Maltese. If only Jones had made Tom and Jerry cartoons like this instead of the facial expression pose-fest he gave audiences in the ‘60s, what a treat it would have been for theatre audiences.
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4 comments:

  1. top_cat_james29 April 2016 at 13:37

    Jones' The Year of the Mouse is "Hubie and Bertie Lite".

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  2. Chris Sobieniak29 April 2016 at 21:23

    If only Jones had made Tom and Jerry cartoons like this instead of the facial expression pose-fest he gave audiences in the ‘60s, what a treat it would have been for theatre audiences.

    Oh, hell yes!

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    1. Pokey30 April 2016 at 07:43

      And later television audiences after they went to TV...!

      Steve

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  3. top_cat_james30 April 2016 at 17:34

    Looks like Jones was attempting to duplicate the "Pink Elephants on Parade" sequence in Dumbo with its surreal and nightmarish qualities. Even some of the imagery here is similar.

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